Urusei Yatsura 2
Episode 41 - Election Wars 2: The Sequel!
All original cast and characters of Urusei Yatsura belong to Rumiko Takahashi, I own only the OCs
A/N: Sorry for the long silent absence, been busy lately, but rest assured: I'm still alive! And on that note:
STAY AT HOME! Now without further ado...
Enjoy if you will.
The past couple of days have been extremely weird here in Tomobiki!
Though Ken in the past had complained that would be par for the course I couldn't help but feel it to be that much more these past days.
For one thing, either Ken or Aoi seemed to vanish to go do something, probably something horrible to unleash on us on these elections. I've tried tracking either of them, but I always bump into the other and lose track...it's infuriating because we have learned absolutely nothing about whatever that Kitsune is plotting, it's almost as if they are switching places on the spot...and then there's Emi-san...
Emi has been inconsolable, Ken snubbing her has taken a huge toll on her psyche, which is already weird in and of itself.
Look, Ken may be a metric ton of things, a schemer, a trickster, a conman, a scoundrel, a pervert, a mad genius, but inconsiderate was never one of them...(not as long as girls were involved), even Emi, as I reckoned, the two would argue like...like...
I REFUSE TO SAY "LIKE AN OLD MARRIED COUPLE", OK!?
...
...Crap...I just said it, didn't I? A-anyways-!
The point was: Ken would tease Emi, sometimes shoot a sarcastic comment, at worst slap her with a paper fan (which given Emi's already absurd toughness, it would honestly amount to getting flicked on the forehead)...and Emi would retaliate by shooting millions of volts into Ken's body, as the bastard rightfully deserved...but him snubbing Emi like this was outright weird! Even for him! SPECIALLY for him!
Something was up, and I would use every bit off my strength to find out the truth of whatever he was scheming, and put a stop to it!
That being said...how was I supposed to do it in the first place!?
Chasing after Ken, I kept following through the school corridors as he just wandered about...the utterly conniving, sneaky bastard would just not show his hand! As I kept stalking him, trying my hardest to ignore the murmurs and gossips of my fellow students as they looked at me weirdly, there had to be a way to force Ken's hand...but how?
"You do realize that amongst the students you have built quite the reputation, right Inoue?" A pretentious voice startled me.
"GAH!" *SMASH* My instincts took the better of me and I punched Mendou in the face...by complete accident, I swear!
Mendou stood there with my fist buried in his face. "Ah!...err...sorry 'bout that." I removed my hand.
And got rightfully yelled at. "YOU DAMNED SAVAGE! YOUR FACE MAY NOT BE WORTH PROTECTING BUT SOME OF US STILL WANT TO KEEP OUR GOOD LOOKS!" ...I no longer felt bad about punching Mendou , huh...how about that?
"Whaddya want?" I asked annoyed, "I'm busy right now."
"Yes...stalking your rival..." Mendou mocked me in his ignorance.
"YOU DON'T KNOW THE BASTARD LIKE I DO!" I yelled. "Listen, any idle moment, just him being bored could possibly lead into that Kitsune building a...I dunno- a galaxy-ending weapon!" I explained...somehow with what felt like a little too much accuracy? ...M-maybe I'm reading too much into this...
"Hmph!" Mendou scoffed, as he recomposed himself at frightening speed, he's getting used to getting hit at least. "...you think I'm not aware of that miscreant's abilities? Even if for now he seems to merely be playing mind games with us, there's no doubt even now his plans must already be in motion."
If he understood this much then why was he wasting my time?! "If you get that then why-?" Before I could voice my objections, Mendou cut me off.
"Precisely why I called for help." He said, with a pretentious smile, as he lightly clapped his hands. "*clap-clap* Allegra-san?" He called.
Suddenly from the ceiling, hanging upside down, a familiar bat-alien dropped by and took a bow as she landed! "Yes, Young Master?" She said suddenly, "GAH!" making me lose balance and fall on my butt.
"A-Allegra-san?" I asked, a little bit shell-shocked, as the bat-alien maid [well that's a mouthful...] landed on her feet before me...speaking of which...
"S-Shou-hunny!? F-fancy meeting you here!" She blurted out as she noticed me...hunny?
I hadn't seen her since Ken's kidnapping incident a couple of weeks past, I did recall she had been hired as a maid for the Mendou, and seeing her fully decked out in a maid uniform it seemed she looked the part, her uniform was clearly specially made in order for her wings to fit through her dress, overall it was still a little surreal this entire situation now that I think about it...but then again, Ken's shenanigans had left me utterly jaded, so I was able to recover quickly.
I stood up to greet her. "It's good to see you again, Allegra-san."
"Heh heh heh~...Y-you too..." She smiled, blushing a little...must be hard to adapt to Earth for the poor girl after all.
"*AHEM*" Mendou cleared his throat, which made Allegra stand stiff and resume the maid act, as Mendou gave her her orders. "Allegra-san, I have called you here to use your echolocation skills to uncover exactly what is that deviant Kitsune plotting." He explained...AH! Right! Her sound powers, if it's her then...
"Huh? Kitsune? You mean Emi-chan's husband?" Allegra innocently called Ken that.
"I REFUSE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT! ! !" Both Mendou and I yelled in unison, making the poor girl flinch and shield herself with her wings. We both took notice of our reactions and composed ourselves.
"*A-AHEM!*...Sorry 'bout that..." I apologized, as well Mendou gave a short "My apologies..." as well. "...Ken has confirmed to me that they're only engaged...NOT. Married." I emphasized that last part...clenching my teeth with force.
To which Allegra gave me a flat stare. "...You don't know the Oni, huh? That might as well be married already, hun..." I saw Mendou visibly cringe...I imagine I made the same kind of expression. "...then again Emi was born here on Earth...maybe you guys do things differently?" Allegra muttered to herself...wait, Emi was born on Earth?!
"*Hrmm!*" Mendou cleared his throat. "We are digressing. Allegra-san please use your echolocation to pinpoint that delinquent's location for now, and inform me whenever he makes an odd move." Mendou ordered.
"R-right away, Young Master!" She said, and perking her ears she gave a quiet "*chriirp!*..."
A small beat of silence, probably five seconds later. "...I can't find 'im."
"Huh?" I asked, confused.
"Are you certain?" Mendou questioned, also taken off guard.
"*chriirp!*..." Allegra chirped once more. "...He's not in this building...also what the hell is this place?! Just what in the galaxy do you guys have in the basement!?" Allegra added in a panic.
Both Mendou and I blinked confused. "...Basement? ?"
Mendou shook his head, focusing on the main problem. "L-let's ignore that for now!" Mendou turned to me. "Inoue, when did you last see that delinquent Aoki!"
I nodded. "I just saw Kitsune go by that hallway!" I pointed and as we made our way to-
-a hallway near the cafeteria, indeed we saw Ken...crouching in front of a vending machine, grabbing some loose change that had fallen to the floor.
"Lucky~!" ...Was Ken this hard up for cash?! Honestly it was more his style to con someone out of their money or downright pickpocket some poor bastard if he wanted some cash...
"There he is." I pointed, though he was still acting unusually.
"How odd..." Mendou said pensive. "Could there be some interference here that might be disrupting your echolocation, Allegra-san?" Mendou gave the bat-girl the benefit of the doubt, Ken was infamous for setting traps that would stop most people after all.
But Allegra narrowed her eyes as she adjusted her glasses. "...wait a minute, but that was not-..." Her expression turned suddenly serious. "*chriirp!*..."
"(?・・)" She looked blankly for a moment.
"( 3 3 )" Took off her glasses, and wiped them, before setting them back on her face.
"*chriirp!*..." Chirped again, and finally pointing at Ken: "Either I need a new prescription, or that ain't Emi's hus-err...I mean K-Kenichi. By the way, glasses are covered on my benefits right Young Master?"
"Eh?" I asked, this didn't make sense, I could see that Kitsune right there!
"W-what exactly do you mean?" Mendou asked, just as confused by the sound of it.
Allegra narrowed her eyes. "What my eyes see, and what my ears hear doesn't match up." She said.
"*chriirp!* The height doesn't match."
"*chriirp!* The hair doesn't match."
"*chriirp!* The face doesn't match."
"*chriirp!* ...the gender doesn't match!"
Both Mendou and I were shocked...don't tell me-!
"It seems you have drawn the same conclusion as I, Inoue." Mendou said, particularly angry...and I can't blame him:
THAT BASTARD TRICKED US AGAIN!
We went to confront that "Kitsune", and demand some answers!
Tomobiki High - Cafeteria
Aoi had been lucky today! Someone dropped 700 yen in coins, seriously some people were absolutely careless, right? ¥700 in change!? In two one hundred coins and a five hundo one as well! She was feeling at the top of the world by this newfound luck, it was then when she noticed Shou Inoue, Ken's scatterbrained rival, and Shin Mendou, the insufferable billionaire approaching her.
"Ugh...now what?" Aoi muttered annoyed, recalling she was supposed to be pretending to be Ken right now. "Yo, dweebs, what's crackin'?" Aoi asked making her best kyotonite delinquent impression for her unwanted audience.
"Funny you should ask..." Mendou answered, his eyes narrowed, regarding the "delinquent" in front of him. "Turns out we have managed to uncover part of 'your' scheme." Mendou said with confidence.
This visibly perturbed Aoi, even she was in the dark on Ken's overall plan to win the election on his favor. "O-oh...really?" She said, trying to retain her cool.
"Indeed...but first..." Mendou unsheathed his beam katana, and with a press of a button he activated the plasma blade and leveled it at [what looked like]Ken's face,
"Urk!" forcing the disguised teen to step back and take a ready stance.
"The jig is up! We're not gonna fall for your tricks again" Shou stepped menacingly, ready to fight this doppelganger until-
*FSHWEEN!* "WHOA-!" Shou suddenly jumped back as a beam katana was aimed at him, Mendou suddenly brandished his plasma blade at Shou.
"W-whaddya think you're doing?!" Shou demanded confused from Mendou.
"...do not misunderstand..." Mendou started. "If this is who I believe it is, regardless of whether she is that delinquent's accomplice or not, she is still first and foremost a girl. And Allegra had already confirmed her gender thus..." Mendou took a ready stance against Shou. "I am sorry, but I cannot allow you to harm a girl in my presence!" The billionaire scion proclaimed.
Aoi looked momentarily confused, but then an idea popped in her brain. "Ah!" and she smiled as devilishly as Ken tended to. "A~ah...Man, this so damn lame *kon*..." She barked for emphasis. "Guess you guys totally figured me out in the end, huh? *kon kon*" Aoi smiled as she gave what Ken would later call a masterful bluff.
Mendou looked back confused at the kitsune-ish barking. "...Whuh?" *SMASH!* Giving Shou enough time to uppercut the distracted scion. "Will you please focus! We need to confront him...I mean her...they? it? GRRRR, THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT THAT KITSUNE WANTS US TO DO! Urk-!" Shou berated, before igniting his hands in black plasma and blocking a downward slash that almost hit him.
"W-why you-!? NOT JUST ONCE, BUT TWICE NOW YOU DARE STRIKE ME?!" Mendou shot back angry.
"F.O.C.U.S.!" Shou bit back.
"En garde!"
Allegra watched all this unfold with a flat glare. (It's a good thing Shou-hun is so cute...and that boss Shin is not such a bad boss...otherwise I'd have enough of this...) Allegra thought to herself, as she stepped forward. "...Lemme take care of this Bo-...*ahem* Young Master..." She deadpanned.
"!" Aoi stood on guard, remembering clearly Ken's warning: no attacking and no getting attacked, or else the disguise goes poof, she saw it first-hand after she got challenged by this mummy dude in the next town over...what was his name? Ranma...something-or-other, who cares? Anyway, this time around Aoi was in a brightly lit room, so she had the advantage.
"Nothing personal." Allegra warned. "I'm just doing my job." As she flapped her wings and became airborne.
Oooh right, the whole 'being-able-to-fly thing, Aoi had forgotten about that. "...Oh, yeah...forgot you could do that..." Aoi said in Ken's appearance...mimicking his flippancy with her genuine naiveté.
"...I'll give her this, she's an amazing actress..." Shou admitted.
Allegra dive-bombed, "!" Aoi reacting and jumping sideways to dodge in the nick of time. All the bystanders shielding themselves from the gust of wind as passed through and knocked over some chairs and tables, as well as some lunches.
Aoi [still disguised] looked at the scene angry. "Yo! Didn't yer parents teach ya not to waste food!?" Aoi yelled genuinely angry. Both Shou and Mendou taking note of the odd reaction.
Allegra smirked, readjusting her glasses. "Oh ho~?" She said as she flapped some distance away. "Then let's see you handle this!" As the bat-alien said this, she spread her wings and started to flap them with force, knocking over many of the surviving lunches and chairs, and launching them airborne as projectiles with a powerful gale!
"GUH!" Aoi yelped at the incoming barrage.
"Good one, Allegra-san!" Shou cheered.
"Not quite, look!" Mendou pointed as Aoi took a stance, and as the massive projectile-chair-bento barrage was heading for her-
"ORAAAAAAAAAAAA!" *SNATCH*
"ORA! *SNATCH* ORA! *SNATCH* ORA! *SNATCH* ORA! *SNATCH* ORA! *SNATCH* ORA! *SNATCH* ORA! *SNATCH* ORA! *SNATCH* ORA! *SNATCH* ORAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
In a blur of movement, Aoi managed to catch and set all chairs and all lunches in absolute perfect order!
"Hmph!, Tadaa~!" Aoi taunted, under the guise of Ken, as the other students and bystanders cheered in awe.
"I had forgotten about this, but if this is Fujinami-san, then she's the daughter of a teashop proprietress. What dreadful skills she must have from the food industry!" Mendou proclaimed in awe.
While Shou shoot him a flat disbelieving look. "...Guy, what kind of teashops have you been going to?!"
"Tch!" Aoi snapped her tongue as she heard that, after all, she was supposed to be disguised as Ken. "...!" Then an idea popped in her head, she'd pull a typical Ken move:
"That was WAY too easy~! You're gonna have to try a little better than that if you wanna catch this intergalactic badass and conqueror of all women with his pants down, Babe~! *kon!*" A perfect display of a typical Ken boast, Aoi even threw a flirtatious wink at Allegra!
Allegra flinched at that. "Urk! Two things: I don't swing that way and you're not my type, sorry not sorry."
Meanwhile Shou and Mendou stared dumbfounded, with Mendou sideglancing at Shou. "...are we absolutely sure that is not the delinquent Aoki?"
While Aoi smirked at Mendou's doubt, Shou glared angrily at the deceiving accomplice, so much so that he couldn't help himself: "DAMMIT, TELL THE TRUTH, TELL US WHO YOU ARE!" Shou yelled out a command at Aoi!
"URK!" Aoi flinched, and clutched her head, her own voice starting to betray her. "I...I..aM...urgh!"
"Ah!" Shou gasped in surprise.
"Of course! That deviant delinquent said it so himself: clairvoyants are immune to hypnotic commands!" Mendou explained what was happening. "...on that note: why didn't you think of using this before?"
"I'M NEW TO THESE HORRIBLE POWERS, OKAY!? ALSO THEY'RE HORRIBLE AND I WANT TO USE THEM AS LITTLE AS POSSIBLE!"
Aoi was struggling, her will trying to force her body to disobey the command. "I-I...AaAaARGHM...!" (D-dammit! C'mon Aoi, Ken's counting on you! Don't you dare!)
Aoi struggled, she poured each and every ounce of her will to fight off the hypnotic command, and with a primal roar: "UOOOOOOOOOOOOH!"
*SMASH!*
Aoi slammed a punch directly to her forehead with enough force to snap her out of the trance.
And as Aoi still momentarily disguised, she shoot a confident smirk and said: "...Sorry, I don't feel like telling you jack!" A feeling of victory washed over her, in that brief moment.
Location Unknown - Meanwhile...
Ken was face-palming, a look of absolute chagrin on his face, as he sat in a table of an admittedly fancy restaurant somewhere in the confines of the galaxy.
"Is everything all right, Mr. Aoki?" A pandimensional alien, a gentleman donning a tuxedo with a spectral cube with a spheroid core for a head, asked concerned, sitting in front of Ken, as the young man in question, who he was currently discussing business with, had a look of pure defeat on his face.
"Hm? Oh yeah...it's just...*sigh* ...our meeting is probably gonna get interrupted in a few minutes, Hexahedron..." Ken bemoaned.
"But then you have no qualms with my proposition, then?" The geometrical alien queried.
"Yeah, no problem with that." Ken assured. "It's in a legal loophole so the MiB wouldn't be able to touch us even if they wanted to...not like that's ever stopped me before...just make sure I get the capital if you want me to be able to move the products..." Ken said, as he fought to stave off an incoming headache, both literal and figuratively.
"Not just acquire, the products will most likely need to be modified to fit the client's needs, so your engineering expertise will be necessary." Hexahedron added.
"Yeah yeah...I know...grrrrRRAH!" Ken yelled annoyed.
"Is...is everything truly all right, Mr. Aoki?" Hexahedron asked once more concerned.
Ken shot an annoyed glare at the cubical gentleman. "...It usually never is...*kon*" Ken answered cryptically with an annoyed smile...
Tomobiki High - Cafeteria
As for why Ken was so frustrated right then and there? Well Aoi's disguised started to phase out of existence.
"Eh?" Asked one confused and exposed Aoi Fujinami.
"Ah." Said both Shou and Mendou as the illusion became undone.
"...huh." Said one surprised Allegra, as she saw the scene unfold
"W-wait a minute, w-what the heck happened-...!" It was then when Aoi realized her blunder.
"Couple a warnings tho~: when in disguise you can't attack or get attacked."
"Ah...AAAAAAAAH!" Aoi screamed, "I'M AN IDIOT! THE TWO THINGS I'M NOT SUPPOSED TO DO WHILE DISGUISED, AND I JUST DID THEM BOTH...TO MYSELF!"
Indeed, the moment Aoi struck her own forehead, she had both launched an attack and received an attack, undoing the holographic disguise in one fell swoop.
*Ka-Crack!* The telltale sound of knuckles cracking brought Aoi's attention to Shou. "So~...care to tell us what this is all about?" Shou interrogated.
"As you have been exposed, you might as well confess." Mendou followed close behind.
Aoi glared for a couple of seconds,as she closed her eyes and placed a hand on a nearby empty table. "...Heh."
*KER-SLAMMMA!* "You'll never take me alive!"
Aoi yelled, as she surreptitiously slammed the table she had at hand on top of the scatterbrained fighter and the millionaire scion, and ran away at full speed.
"S-SHOU-HUNNY! BOSS!" Allegra yelled concerned for her crush and her source of income.
"...urgh...that delinquent...is clearly a horrible influence on Miss Fujinami..." Mendou groaned.
"...don't tell me what I already know..." Shou shot annoyed.
Tomobiki High - Hallway leading to the Cafeteria.
"C-cheer up, Emi-san!" Usagi said, trying to comfort a depressed Emi. "I-I'm sure it's just the elections that have Ken being such a brat...well,more so than usual..." Usagi whispered that last bit to herself.
"I don't get it..." Emi said, her spirits low. "I can't sense it anymore! I can't sense one bit of Sweetie's affection anymore!"
Usagi side-glanced away from Emi. "...Was...was Ken really that affectionate to begin with?" She shot.
"HE IS!" Emi said passionately. "...or...at least he was, he would always cutely deny it, t'cha know? In that tsundere sort of way. And he'd give up struggling to receive a hug after a while even though he knows he could've put up more of a fight or how he'd pretend to get embarrassed at getting a peck on the cheek or or...*siiiiiiiiiiiigh~*" Emi gave a long dispirited sigh.
"...Huh...guess I never noticed those little details..." Usagi mentioned.
"W-well I do!" Emi challenged angry, but soon lost her spirit. "...at least, I thought I did..." Emi added depressed.
Usagi huffed angrily. "Even if it's for one of his plots, Kenichi-kun's going too far!" She said openly. "...I'm gonna give that Kitsune a piece of my mind!"
On that moment, Aoi Fujinami dashed in between Emi and Usagi. "OUTTA THE WAY!" She yelled as she barrelled through.
"OW!" "OOF!" Both girls were shoved aside, with Usagi shooting an angry "Excuse you!" at the seaside delinquent, when Allegra and Shou followed, giving chase to Ken's accomplice.
"Huh? Allegra-chan?" Emi blinked. "Can't talk. Working!"
"S-Shou-kun?" Usagi remarked. "In the middle of something!"
Both girls then noticed Mendou arriving, taking the rear end of the chase. Usagi grabbed Mendou by the shirt collar, forcing him to a strangled stop. "HORK!"
"Ok, what's going on here?!" Usagi demanded to know, while Mendou rubbed his sore neck.
"...*ahem* We've uncovered part of that delinquent Aoki's plot!" Mendou explained quickly, earning a surprised "WHAT!?" from both Emi and Usagi. "The dastard has deceived us all this time! His accomplice, Aoi Fujinami was masquerading as the delinquent fiend since what I assume have been the past few days!"
"T-that's-!...that explains a lot actually..." Usagi pondered, while Emi stared, wide-eyed.
"Allegra has confirmed he is not in the building, we have no clue where he is, but I saw the disguise become undone with my own eyes! No doubt another devious contraption of his at work!" Mendou followed.
"So...all this time...Kenichi-kun had all of us on edge thinking his weird acting was part of a plan...while he managed to sneak out from under our noses!" Usagi put Ken's likely plan together. "How did we not see this?!"
"S-so...all this time...that WASN'T Sweetie?" Emi asked, a note of hope in her voice.
"Most assuredly! I have no doubt he's had us deceived from the very beginning!" Mendou confirmed... completely missing the point.
Emi looked up hopeful, as she dug a hand into her cleavage and pulled out her phone to call Ken.
*beeep*...*beeep*...*bee-*
Phone Log: Emi Moroboshi - Ken Aoki
Emi Moroboshi: Sweetie?
Ken Aoki: ...
Emi Moroboshi: Sweetie, where are t'cha?
Ken Aoki: ...New phone, who dis?
Emi Moroboshi: !...It really is you, isn't it!?
Ken Aoki: ...I have no idea what you're talkin' about. *kon* *CLICK*
End Log
"Ah!" Even as Ken interrupted the conversation quickly, it was there. To Emi the difference between the Ken she called and the Ken she had to endure these past few days were like night and day! "That sweet, embarrassed shyness as he answered...the cute, trollish deflection...the obvious 'tryin'-to-play-dumb', followed by that adorable cute fox bark!" Emi's smile grew wide.
"You got all that from that little conversation!?" Usagi said in disbelief, sharing the same flat glare as Mendou.
"That was him! THAT WAS THE REAL DEAL! *squeeee~!*" Emi squealed in happiness. (It was there too! I could hear it in his voice, he was happy to hear me!...Well, he was also annoyed, but mostly happy!) Emi was at the top of the world right now.
[He can try to deflect, but that was the real McCoy all right...it still burns me how we fell for this one too!] Kokoro added.
...Not to say she forgot who was responsible for this mess in the first place: "Mendou-san?" Emi said with a smile.
"Y-yes, Lady Emi?" Mendou answered, suddenly nervous.
"Which way did Aoi-chan go?" Emi asked, her smile no longer reaching her eyes.
"Uhm...thatta way..." Mendou pointed where he had seen Shou and Allegra last go into a hallway
"Thanks!" Emi said, just before she shot like a missile barreling through the hallway at top speed, causing a shockwave in her wake, bowling over several students and Mendou over...Usagi stood her ground.
"...Welp, we should get outta here...she's about to go nuclear on Aoi-san..." Usagi said, in a deadpan.
Mendou dusted himself off, as he stood back up. "Hmph! Likely on that Aoki as well...for his sake, he better be far away."
Tomobiki High - Outside the Dorm Building - Meanwhile...
Aoi ran as fast as she could reaching the dorm building, but she was stopped right at the entrance as Allegra blocked the entrance and Shou in a battle ready stance right behind her.
"That's enough! I don't want to fight you, but I WANT THAT INSANE KITSUNE'S PLOT TO SUCCEED EVEN LESS!" Shou shouted, regaining his clarity...even if just briefly.
"Hmph!" Aoi scoffed. "Dude, you don't even have a clue what Ken's cooking up."
"THAT'S WHAT SCARES ME THE MOST!" Shou outright yelled. "You don't know the bastard like I do! He's the kind of bastard that utterly destroys the laws of nature and order just because he got bored! For everyone's sake: tell us where Ken is!" Shou pleaded, desperation in his voice.
Aoi smirked. "Well, sucks for ya, cuz I don't have a clue!" Aoi said victorious.
...
"I'm sorry...what?"
Shou asked, his expression being one of pure shock.
"Ken never told me where he was going, heck all I know of his plan is to cover for him while he's gone...and yeah, I messed that up, so what!?" Aoi said that last part under her breath.
Shou stared, his pupils having shrunk to pinpricks, his hands balling slowly into fists. "You...Aoi Fujinami...let Kenichi Aoki, an absolute mad scientist/delinquent, a guy who could make a railgun off of trash...out of your sight...with no clue what he might do to win this election..." Shou said slowly, his ki igniting on a slow burn.
"Uh...uuuuuh..." Aoi felt unnerved.
"A guy who had managed to build a machine to revive dinosaurs just because he saw something similar in a freaking Pokémon game...a guy who instinctively builds sentry guns inside of fridges, just because his dad ate a manjuu he was saving...the same bastard...that...that..."
Shou's entire body was engulfed with the obsidian aura, as he recalled...Senbu Academy, the school being torn from the ground up...as if gravity had been reversed, the sky dyed of a sharp crimson, while Shou looked on in despair...as atop the eroding building Ken stood, his face darkened as his eyes and mouth shone in a creepy white...
Shou stopped looking at his hands and glared directly at Aoi. "...I...I am so unbelievably angry at you right now..." Shou said steadily at Aoi. "...there's no way there is anyone on Earth that is angrier than I am right now." Shou said in a near steady voice.
"T-tch! Well what do I-?" Before Aoi could answer...Emi was about to prove Shou so very...very wrong.
"AOI! ! ! !"
An imperious roar, one that struck the air like thunder, followed by a viridian high-school-girl-sized-bullet that struck right in front of Aoi, exactly like lightning, and as the dust cleared from the impact, there stood Emi Moroboshi, an absolutely livid embodiment of a goddess of lightning.
In that instant both Allegra and Shou saw this scene in front of them and were both glad not to be the target of Emi's rage right now...particularly evident with Shou deflating his anger and muttering a low: "...you know what? I'm OK with this..."
"GUH-!" Aoi yelped, her instincts screaming danger as Emi stood imposing in front of her, her face darkened, as only her eyes shined as spikes of electricity shone from them.
"Where. Is. My. Husband!?" Emi demanded fury invading her voice.
"I-I don't know! I-I wouldn't tell ya anywa-" Aoi regained her nerve and was about to taunt Emi, but Emi's hand shot quickly grasping the neck of her shirt. "GAH!" And lifting the seaborn delinquent...to her feet.
"..." "..."
"Huh...never noticed you were this shrimpy..." Aoi muttered.
"SHADDAP! !" Emi roared...both angry and embarrassed at the same time. Emi raised her hand, her fist sparkling with electricity, "I'll just have ta zap the answer outta t'cha then!"
"GUH-!" Aoi found a considerable amount of strength holding her back, nowhere near Ken's power, and definitely not as strong as her own strength, but it was considerably above the regular delinquent's: Aoi could break free, but it would take a bit of effort...but even then...getting hit by lightning... "Shit! This is actually bad, huh?" Aoi muttered under her breath.
Emi reared her hand back and with a roar. "RAIGEKI PANCH-!"
"STAAAAAAAAAHP!"
Suddenly Foxy, Ken's subservient animatronic jumped out and screamed in Ken's voice!
"KYAAAAAAAAAH!"
Forcing Emi to stop mid-attack and jump and hide behind Shou, effectively jump-scared out of her offensive. "I dun wanna be stuffed in a robot!" Emi yelped, as Shou side-glanced at the cowering Emi and then shot a flat glare at Foxy.
"So...THAT'S why he built you, huh?" Shou realized in disgust, as the animatronic uncovered it's patched eye to project a hologram of Ken before everyone.
"Geez...is it too much to ask you dweebs not to kill each other while I'm away?! *kon!*" Ken scolded, as the projection showed him sitting cross-legged with the Switch in his hands, and shooting an annoyed glare at everyone involved in this mess.
"WHO'S FAULT DO YOU THINK IT IS WE'RE LIKE THIS IN THE FIRST PLACE, YOU PSYCHO-KITSUNE!?" Shou rebuked, angry that Ken of all people just called him out for this.
Emi, her fear disappearing after having heard Ken's voice, snuck a peek from behind Shou, to see her beloved husband. "AH! SWEETIE~!" She predictably shot like a bullet to glomp at Ken...
*BZZT!* *CRASH!* Only for her to predictably phase through the projection and crash into a nearby wall. "...Ya know, yer lucky you're so insanely tough as you are, Emi...so much so I know you're actually unharmed from crashing into that wall at what...Mach 4? 3.5?" Ken shot sarcastically as Emi managed to dig herself out of the wall and pout at Ken.
"...Meanie..." Emi said in an adorable pout.
"...I'll have you know your cuteness holds no power over me..." Ken said in a deadpan.
"T'cha think I'm cute!?" Emi gasped with a smile.
"Not my words...*kon*" Ken deflected, to which Emi shot an irritated "Mou~!"
"Kitsune..." Shou stood in front of the hologram. "...whatever you plan, I swear..."
"Save yer breath, dude." Ken cut off with a smug smile. "I've already won...basically." Ken taunted.
"Y-You-!" Shou was about to berate but only for Emi to float in front of Shou suddenly.
"...?" Ken raised an eyebrow. "What? Gonna say somethin' cliché like 'You won't get away with this?' Kehehehe~!" Ken taunted at Emi this time.
Emi however only looked at Ken for a few seconds and then smiled. "Hey Sweetie, are t'cha eatin' well?" She asked with a smile.
"...*kon?*" Ken barked confused, staring at Emi's cheerful smile [While Usagi and Shin arrived to see the scene before them]. "...uuuh, yeah...I've been eating well, dropped by on a couple of restaurants in the neighborhood...food was good..."
Emi tittered happily at that. "You've been takin' good care of yerself right? No pullin' any all-nighters?" Emi asked concerned.
"URK-!" Ken flinched and side-glanced. "I-I can neither confirm nor deny, kehehe~ *kon*." Ken barked a bit nervous.
"Sweetie!" Emi chided, as she closed her eyes and scolded softly. "I told t'cha to sleep for 9 hours, minimum!"
"I only need 8." Ken grumbled, but flinched as Emi was pointing at him directly [or at least his hologram]
"If it was up ta me, it would be 10!" Emi argued, before her face softened. "It ain't healthy for t'cha to work for so long, okay?"
Ken's expression was one that was clearly annoyed but soon went to resignation. "...*sigh*...I'll try not to stay too late...sorry for worryin' ya, I guess..." Ken muttered under his breath.
Emi smiled, a genuine smile filled with happiness. "It's okay, just...t'cha know...call home now and then okay? I miss t'cha...We all did..." Emi said with a soft expression.
"I did not miss him." Shin said in tha background, as Emi whipped her arm back and aimed a bolt of lightning at the Mendou scion. *ZAAAP!* "GYAAAAH!"
Ken for his part kept an unreadable expression for a brief moment...and then sighed. "*sigh*...okay, I suppose I can do just as much..." Ken said, somewhat embarrassed.
Emi merely tittered at that, she was happy to hear Ken's voice...his real voice [albeit through an intergalactic transmission] after such a long time.
Shou looked on concerned, as Allegra and Aoi joined their group. "S-shouldn't we...uh...grill Ken for information or-?"
But Usagi shook her head. "I think...we should let these two alone for a few minutes." The blonde girl giving a small smile seeing Ken and Emi catching up with each other.
Allegra beside Shou nodded her head, also sharing a smile at the overall wholesomeness of the two, while Aoi looked at the scene flatly and scratched her head in annoyance.
"This so f**kin' stupid...I'm outta here..." Aoi said annoyed.
"So in the end we'll just let Ken execute his plan?" Shou said concerned.
"...I guess we'll have to deal with that when we have to deal with that, right Shou-hunny?" Allegra suggested...dragging the freshly electrocuted form of her boss.
"...I suppose..." Shou sighed, defeated, as the day before the election was about to arrive.
"Oh yeah, forgot to mention: I... may have crashed your UFO. Sorry."
"YOU DID WHAT!?"
To Be Continued...